sells laptops preinstalled with a variety of GNU/LInux distributions, and MS Windows is optional. They come in a variety of sizes.
By the way with regard to the "Microsoft Tax", as far as I know, there really is no such thing. Companies that force customers to have an MS OS installed in their new system are usually following the requirements of an agreement they have with Microsoft. By the agreement, they get MS OSs very cheap, hence they do not have to add $100+ to each system to recover the cost of the MS OS. There are other requirements too -- e.g. It is not allowed to display the price of the MS OS as a part of the full system price. The MS OS must be presented as an "integral part of the computer system, without which, the computer is unusable". Ya right.
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sells laptops preinstalled with a variety of GNU/LInux distributions, and MS Windows is optional. They come in a variety of sizes.
By the way with regard to the "Microsoft Tax", as far as I know, there really is no such thing. Companies that force customers to have an MS OS installed in their new system are usually following the requirements of an agreement they have with Microsoft. By the agreement, they get MS OSs very cheap, hence they do not have to add $100+ to each system to recover the cost of the MS OS. There are other requirements too -- e.g. It is not allowed to display the price of the MS OS as a part of the full system price. The MS OS must be presented as an "integral part of the computer system, without which, the computer is unusable". Ya right.